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photofan1986: If the camera had IBIS and used a conventional Bayer sensor, I'd be interested. As is, nah.

I have too many cameras. FF Sony, Nikon, M43 Olympus and also X-T2.

All I can say about X trans is that I never, ever think about it. The fact it is "different" never crops up. I have sharp images that print up well. Cant see a difference between the Fuji and FF 99% of the time unless I crop heavily.

I use Exposure. Never liked LR anyway. Perhaps this is a factor, I don't know, but I simply fail to understand the negativity about x trans. I really, really like the Fuji and shoot it every day. I much prefer to my Sonys.

CanonSharpShooter: Couldnt this all be done with a D850? Manufacturers just taking the mirror out to get you to rebuy the gear that you already have. Mirrorless is an excuse to get people open up their wallets again!!

raphaelmatto: Lifelong Apple enthusiast, since the early 80's—& I'm switching to a PC for my desktop. High prices aside, the parts I want just aren't available in Macs anymore. I can build a 5GHz 12 core / 24 threaded AMD box with 16 gigs of ram & a discreet !!NVIDIA/CUDA!! graphics card for less than a 3GHz 6 core mini w/8 gigs of ram & no graphics card, wha? There isn't even an Apple display to tempt me to stay in the ecosystem—I have to buy an HP or Dell or whatever monitor anyway. All the programs I want to use run on both platforms. Sigh. Maybe I'll buy a 4th gen iWatch to get my fix. Anyone else feel like this is the moment Apple lost you?

Also, my 2011 MacBook Air has a 2 core 1.6GHz i5. Guess what the 2018 Air has—7 years later!! ... a 2 core 1.6GHz i5. Yeah the new gen is a little bit faster, but... that's still ridiculous.

Mac want you to get a MacBook Pro if you want speed. My 2018 Pro is Quad Core. They obviously don't want the Air to offer the same thing on the cheap.

Daft Punk: Oh how I love to read the comments when apple launch a new laptop.

It seems to be a badge of honour with some IT literate people to denigrate Apple products as overhyped and expensive. They simply cannot comprehend why people do not see Apple gear the way they do.

I’m old enough to have used both Apple and PC. I still run dual systems with a high end Windows 10 set up and the latest 2018 MacBook Pro i7.

Here is the uncomfortable truth - the Mac is just better to use everyday. It’s all about the OS. The average Joe who does not care “how” the thing works is inevitably going to end up with a MAC if they can afford it. This is what Apple rules all.

The gear nerds just have to suspend their disbelief and suck it up.

Chadley_Chad

I simply fail to understand how you can come to that conclusion. Windows 10 is still not a patch on iOS. My work forces me to use Windows while my creative stuff is all on Mac. My company provides the bestest, fastest, most expensivest, exotic Windows set up. I hate using it.

Maybe you use the Mac with a blindfold on or your fingers in mittens or something. The superiority of the Mac is self evident IMO.

It seems to be a badge of honour with some IT literate people to denigrate Apple products as overhyped and expensive. They simply cannot comprehend why people do not see Apple gear the way they do.

I’m old enough to have used both Apple and PC. I still run dual systems with a high end Windows 10 set up and the latest 2018 MacBook Pro i7.

Here is the uncomfortable truth - the Mac is just better to use everyday. It’s all about the OS. The average Joe who does not care “how” the thing works is inevitably going to end up with a MAC if they can afford it. This is what Apple rules all.

Howard: Imagine how excited they would be if they had Sony sensors to work with! They may even crank out a decent camera!

No. Canon would spend too much energy calibrating each product so that it did not give consumers "too much". Regardless of the sensor. They are a mean-spirited company obsessed with avoiding cannibalisation across product lines and not upsetting the status quo.

The bureaucratic, endlessly controlled narrative; the fundamental process of inventing cool stuff and then holding back on its implementation. The constant presence of people at the top finely calibrating products so they offer just “enough” but never “too much”. The deliberate hobbling of products and features to protect other lines - even if it makes no sense.

Canon offers many marvellous things. Great lenses for a start. DPAF is a great innovation.

But in lots of other areas Canon truly sucks. Their cynical attitude to consumers bothers me.

I just wish they would unshackle themselves and just go all out to impress. It’ll never happen.

Nice try TORN but it does not work.

Sony are brave and set out to disrupt things. That is no mean feat for a large company. Sometimes they get it wrong.

Nah. Color me cynical. Canon is fundamentally designed to deliver just "enough" to people. Minimum of features and capability at the max price they feel the market can take. Sometimes they get it wrong.

Technology which is so deliberately hobbled and compromised just annoys me. Canon do this more than most tech companies.

The bureaucratic, endlessly controlled narrative; the fundamental process of inventing cool stuff and then holding back on its implementation. The constant presence of people at the top finely calibrating products so they offer just “enough” but never “too much”. The deliberate hobbling of products and features to protect other lines - even if it makes no sense.

Canon offers many marvellous things. Great lenses for a start. DPAF is a great innovation.

But in lots of other areas Canon truly sucks. Their cynical attitude to consumers bothers me.

I just wish they would unshackle themselves and just go all out to impress. It’ll never happen.

Oskar P: What upsets some is knowing that in year Canon could very well be the FF mirrorless market leader, just as they now are with ALL mirrorless in Japan.Amazingly Canon's few APSC mirrorless bodies have outsold ALL Sony mirrorless the past few years. No doubt this new camera will increase their lead.

I'd love to see how many Sony owners use Canon lenses. It could be more than 30% use at least one Canon lens.

Does anyone care who is market leader ? Just seems like mindless bragging rights to me. It has nothing to do with taking pictures.

Photomonkey: The Leica S has always been a beautiful example of modern European design. Having handled and shot with them I found them to be a delight to use.Roughly comparable to my FF Canons but with a brilliant finder and butter smooth operation.OK it is expensive, but so would be any Nikon or Canon if they were produced in similar numbers. Leica, OTOH has wisely offered unique features such as a slightly larger sensor that permits higher quality on a per MP basis and they offer a startlingly extensive line of lenses, many with leaf shutters.The LS are nod to pros who use flash and prefer not to be limited by the kludgy workarounds of HSS. In addition, every lens they offer would be a reference standard for IQ by any other maker. The difference is that every lens in their line is of that caliber.So, yeah, they are expensive. The real surprise is that they have created a system that is uniformly excellent yet is as inexpensive as it is.

Indeed, Japanese salaries are relatively high. Which is precisely why increasing numbers of cameras are made elsewhere.